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All the Apple Intelligence Announcements from WWDC 2025 ⭐

How to build your own AI voice from scratch

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Gina Acosta
June 10, 2025

Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,

Although Apple’s annual developer conference didn’t feature the kind of splashy announcement fans are used to seeing at WWDC—especially when it comes to advancements in AI—the company still announced some upgrades, as it struggles to keep up with rivals like Google and OpenAI

Let’s get into it!

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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI

  • Apple Intelligence at WWDC 2025

  • Mark Zuckerberg Personally Hiring to Create New “Superintelligence” AI Team

  • AI Tutorial: How to build your own AI voice from scratch

  • AI Tools to check out

  • AI Findings/Resources

  • Video of the Day

  • The Latest in AI and Tech 💡

AI News

APPLE

Apple Intelligence at WWDC 2025

Apple Intelligence hasn't landed in the way Apple likely hoped it would, but that's not stopping the company from continuing to iterate on its suite of AI tools. Here are the new features for Apple Intelligence announced during its WWDC 2025.

A new feature integrated into Messages, FaceTime, and Phone, enabling real-time translation of messages, live captions, and spoken translations during calls.

The update allows users not only to create emojis from text but also to mix emojis together and combine them with descriptions to create something new. Additionally, it is now possible to change expressions and hairstyles of Genmojis made from photos.

Image Code playground is also getting ChatGPT support, enabling users to access brand-new styles such as oil painting and vector art.

Visual Intelligence can now scan your screen, enabling users to search and interact with content across apps. It integrates with ChatGPT for contextual queries and actions.

This new feature "incorporates a user’s workout data and fitness history to generate personalized, motivational insights during their session," with real-time feedback delivered in a dynamic voice.

The company now allows developers to tap directly into the on-device foundation model at the core of Apple Intelligence to create intelligent, privacy-focused apps and experiences.

The Shortcuts app is now supercharged with AI, allowing users to "tap into intelligent actions, a whole new set of shortcuts enabled by Apple Intelligence."

Other features:

While the updates are not bad, they were mostly perceived as underwhelming, raising questions about the company's AI direction as competitors keep pushing ahead. The delay in Siri’s upgrades certainly doesn’t help.

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META

Mark Zuckerberg Personally Hiring to Create New “Superintelligence” AI Team

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is personally assembling a dedicated team of roughly 50 AI experts at Meta’s Menlo Park HQ with the goal of achieving artificial general intelligence.

Details:

  • The recruitment will include a new head of AI research for the AGI team, and the CEO's direct involvement appears to be driven partly by frustration with the performance and reception of Meta's latest large language model, Llama 4.

  • Alexandr Wang, the 28-year-old founder and CEO of startup Scale AI, is part of the project, with Meta considering a billion-dollar investment in his company.

  • It’s not yet clear how the Superintelligence group will work alongside Meta’s existing AI teams.

Zuckerberg has openly emphasized making artificial intelligence a priority for Meta. Now, the race for AGI is intensifying, with the company competing against Microsoft-backed OpenAI, Alphabet, and other well-funded upstarts like Elon Musk’s xAI and Anthropic.

AI Tutorial

How to build your own AI voice from scratch

  1. Go to Hume.ai and create an account.

  2. Select Design a voice and grant access to your device’s microphone (the creation process is entirely verbal).

  3. Hume’s AI will start a conversation with you. Just describe the qualities you want the voice to have.

  4. Answer all the questions until Hume AI stops asking, or select Proceed to Customized Voice if you feel you’ve given enough detail. The AI will then create the voice.

  5. Engage in a conversation with your newly created voice to check if it’s what you wanted.

  6. You can provide feedback. If you like the voice, click the thumbs-up symbol.

  7. If you click the thumbs-down symbol, you’ll have the option to try creating the same voice again. Click Retry and it will re-generate, hopefully giving you something closer to what you want.

  8. Once you’re done, you can click the + icon to add the voice to your account – select Continue, or just exit the chat by clicking the red button to return to the home screen.

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AI Findings/Resources

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The latest in AI and Tech

The drop was announced by Altman on X today. Incidentally, this happened while ChatGPT was reportedly down for hours for some users.

The feature, called ‘Spending Intelligence,’ allows customers to ask questions about their finances, such as “How much did I spend on groceries last week?” or “How much did I donate to charity last year?” and receive instant analysis.

Apple's machine learning research team has introduced “STARFlow,” a system that combines normalizing flows with autoregressive transformers to deliver “competitive performance” comparable to state-of-the-art diffusion models.

Microsoft has begun testing a new feature for its Edge browser that adds an AI-powered search to browsing history. This feature allows users to find websites in their history even if they use a phrase, synonym, or typo similar to the site they are looking for.

The feature started appearing in beta versions of Microsoft Edge last week

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